One survivor of the boating accident that claimed a life off the coast of Biddeford described the harrowing tale in an interview with WGME, CBS 13 television. The fishing boat capsized Sunday after a few big waves flooded the vessel, tossing the four passengers overboard. One, Elizabeth Douglass, 53, didn’t survive. “Her boyfriend said he had ahold of her. And the force pulled her out from his arms,” Phillip Langevin told CBS 13. “The last thing any of us heard her say is ‘I can’t swim.’ And we didn’t know if she had sunk or got washed off.”

Confederate statues around the country have come under great scrutinyin recent weeks. But that statue in York Village isn’t a Confederate soldier, despite what you may have heard. Local veteran and historian Mike Dow said the statue, erected in 1906 to honor Union soldiers, actually looks most like an American soldier around the time of the Spanish-American War. So it’s not exactly a Union soldier, admittedly, but it’s not an accidental Confederate, as a persistent rumor claims.

Gov. Paul LePage wants to call an emergency session of the Legislaturein large part to amend a local food sovereignty law passed earlier this summer. Federal food and agriculture regulators told the governor that if the state doesn’t inspect meat and poultry slaughter, they will. The law aims to give communities the authority to allow farmers and local food producers to sell to their neighbors without all the government bureaucracy. With LePage’s proposed amendment, the law will at least keep the meat and poultry part of the program under state oversight, instead of attracting the feds to town.